Mercury And Air Toxic Standards: The Cost Of Delay

Poison from coal-fired power plants is killing our kids. We’re suffering from preventable heart disease and asthma attacks. And we’re spending billions of dollars on hospital visits and missed days at work and school. Polluters are trying to delay new clean air rules that will create jobs and protect the air we breathe and the water we drink.

What is MATS (Mercury and Air Toxic Standards)?

On Dec. 16, 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the support of President Obama, stepped up to help reduce the amount of pollution that is making our communities sick, by putting a limit on pollution from coal-fired power plants by finalizing MATS, the new Mercury and Air Toxic Standards rule.